I don't know if I go for that. You know my thoughts on Hello. The album is good, but that good? Not Sign O The Times good.

2freaky4church1 said:

I don't know if I go for that. You know my thoughts on Hello. The album is good, but that good? Not Sign O The Times good.

I agree. Frankly I prefer Seal's new album 7. Adele is a very good singer...but the hype is crazy.

of course they'd have to fawn over an album selling like hot cakes

RS also gave U2's last album 5 stars. That's all you need to know...

Gunsnhalen said:

RS also gave U2's last album 5 stars. That's all you need to know...

Honestly I lost all respect for RS years agon when they first called Vanilla Ice the "King of Rap" more than 20 years ago.

But I have to admit I am truly happy for Adele sales. It is great to see a CD moving that well in this time and age. Why do you think people like her so much?

DonRants said:

I like her, just don't agree with the review. The U2 review was pathetic.

The monster that is David Bowie should get 5 stars.

5 stars means it's an instant classic though.

Is there such a thing?

Only in hindsight.

MotownSubdivision said:

DonRants said:

Honestly I lost all respect for RS years agon when they first called Vanilla Ice the "King of Rap" more than 20 years ago.

But I have to admit I am truly happy for Adele sales. It is great to see a CD moving that well in this time and age. Why do you think people like her so much?

She can sing really well, has a down to earth image and is making good music that is simple and relatable with no strings attached; no sensation, no products to sell, and no other non-musical endeavours to promote. She and Bruno are true artists and only two of the handful we have in today's mainstream music climate. Those two are the only current top stars who seem to be about their music and focus on promoting what brought them to the dance.

Agree. They seem to be strictly about their music. I think her and Bruno deserve their super star status. People seem to geniunely like their music and what they have to offer. There are no gimmicks, PR stunts or ploys to get people to buy their music or to sell concert tickets. In a generation full of gimmicks, sex kittens and egotistical pop stars, its refreshing to see a few pop stars become successful strictly off of their talent and music and nothing more.

mjscarousal said:

DonRants said:

Why do you think people like her so much?

Adele's music is being played on Pop & R&B radio stations around America..That makes her a CD selling Juggernaut..

Adele's '25' Sells Another 1.15 Million in U.S., Spends Fifth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart
12/27/2015 by Keith Caulfield, Billboard

Total U.S. sales for '25' now exceed 7 million.

Adele’s 25 locks up its third million-selling week in the U.S., as the set sold 1.15 million in pure album sales in the week ending Dec. 24, according to Nielsen Music (up 46 percent). That’s the five-week old set’s second-biggest frame yet, following its 3.38 million bow in the week ending Nov. 26.

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A surge in sales in the week leading up to Christmas (Dec. 25) was expected, as consumers rush to make last-minute holiday purchases. Also aiding 25's sales in the most recent tracking week: the frame captured a full seven days through Dec. 24. Nielsen Music's tracking week runs from Friday through Thursday, and Christmas Eve fell on a Thursday this year. (Usually, the tracking week will end a day or two before Christmas -- or after the holiday, thus lessening the impact of the week-before-Christmas sales frame.)

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25 also sold more than a million in its second week on sale, when it shifted 1.11 million. 25 was already the first album to sell a million copies in two different weeks, and now it’s the first to score three million-selling frames.

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25’s total U.S. album sales, through Dec. 24, now stand at 7.13 million.

Unsurprisingly, 25 also easily earns a fifth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, with 1.19 million equivalent album units.

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The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Jan. 9, 2016-dated chart (where Adele is No. 1 for a fifth frame) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Dec. 29.

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Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, Justin Bieber’s Purpose stays steady at No. 2 with 229,000 units (up 38 percent). Of that sum, 153,000 were in pure album sales (up 53 percent).

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Chris Brown’s new Royalty album clocks the top debut of the week, bowing at No. 3 with 184,000 units (162,000 in pure album sales).

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In terms of straight sales, Royalty nets Brown his largest sales week since his 2011, when his F.A.M.E. album started at No. 1 with 270,000 sold.

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Royalty is Brown’s eighth consecutive top 10 album (and all of his releases have made the top 10). It follows his collaborative album Fan of a Fan: The Album (with Tyga) earlier in 2015, which debuted and peaked at No. 7 (with 51,000 sold in its first week). Previous to that, Brown released the solo set X in 2014, which bowed and peaked at No. 2 (145,000 sold first week).

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Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas to Me dips one position to No. 4 (140,000 units; down less than 1 percent).

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The soundtrack to Star Wars: The Force Awakens beams in at No. 5 with 100,000 units (94,000 in pure album sales). The companion set to the mega-successful new movie is the highest debut for a score-only soundtrack since 1999, when Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, started at No. 3.

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The Force Awakens is the seventh film in the main Star Wars film series, and its soundtrack is the sixth to reach the top 10. (Only Return of the Jedi, in 1983, missed the region. It peaked at No. 20.)

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While the Star Wars series produced six top 10 albums, none have reached No. 1. The closest the series came was with the first film, Star Wars, which saw its album spend three consecutive weeks at No. 2 in 1977. (It was stuck behind Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, which ruled the list for 31 nonconsecutive weeks.)

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Back on the new Billboard 200, One Direction’s Made in the A.M. slips 4-6 with 92,000 units (up 38 percent), Chris Stapleton’s Traveller rises 6-7 with 87,000 units (up 41 percent), Taylor Swift’s 1989 ascends 9-8 with 73,000 units (up 49 percent) and The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness falls 5-9 with 72,000 units (up 13 percent). Adele’s 21 closes out the top 10, holding at No. 10, with 71,000 units (up 46 percent).

I can't swear to ever hearing an Adele song. But, I"m still trying to figure out why a British artist is able to receive a 7x Platinum certification in the United States in only a few weeks when most American artists are struggling to even attain a Gold status? With all of the hype surrounding Janet Jackson's latest album, the last time I checked, it has only sold under 200,000 copies in the U.S.???

kitbradley said:

But, I"m still trying to figure out why a British artist is able to receive a 7x Platinum certification in the United States in only a few weeks when most American artists are struggling to even attain a Gold status? With all of the hype surrounding Janet Jackson's latest album, the last time I checked, it has only sold under 200,000 copies in the U.S.???

I've seen Adele's album in places that don't usually carry CDs like Walgreens and at a gas station. That probably helps Didn't see Janet's album in those stores.

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MickyDolenz said:

kitbradley said:

But, I"m still trying to figure out why a British artist is able to receive a 7x Platinum certification in the United States in only a few weeks when most American artists are struggling to even attain a Gold status? With all of the hype surrounding Janet Jackson's latest album, the last time I checked, it has only sold under 200,000 copies in the U.S.???

I've seen Adele's album in places that don't usually carry CDs like Walgreens and at a gas station. That probably helps Didn't see Janet's album in those stores.

[Edited 12/28/15 16:55pm]

Yes, it is the impulse, feel-good buy of the moment. I remember visiting my local target after 25 came out and they had sold out on the racks in their CD department but they were several copies by the cashier...right among the magazines and the chewing gum.

Kitbradley, its not just Janet Jackson. Seal and Madonna also recently flopped. Record buyers like their artists young.

Now that I think of it, I would love to see a demographic breakdown of just who is buying Adele. I know there must be major crossover into all sorts of markets but I wonder who is here base customer. Just to hazard an unscientific guess, I am thinking young white girls.

DonRants said:

kitbradley said:

With all of the hype surrounding Janet Jackson's latest album, the last time I checked, it has only sold under 200,000 copies in the U.S.???

These days,an album reaching gold status is an unattainable goal for most artists There are only a handful of artists selling alot of records these days (Adele being one of them).

SoulAlive said:

These days,an album reaching gold status is an unattainable goal for most artists There are only a handful of artists selling alot of records these days (Adele being one of them).

But SoulAlive, Adele ain't just selling "alot" of Records...The Units she's moving every week is INSANE...I wanna know what her sells are in England, I mean really...What Kitbradley is saying makes sense..All the other artists are barely moving 100K units and she's moving over a Million week after week...

DonRants said:

tongueinthecrease said:

MotownSubdivision said:

tongueinthecrease said:

MotownSubdivision said:

tongueinthecrease said:

MotownSubdivision said:

Indeed.

What I wonder however is whether or not other acts take note of this and apply this strategy themselves? If enough take this initiative then album sales could very well be on the rise again. It really depends on how much money these acts are willing to put at risk by not subscribing to companies streaming their music.

I think you're predicting the future here. It'll be a musical revolution attributed to Taylor Swift.

No, in all seriousness, I do believe other artists will delay streaming abilities or completely end streaming to increase album sales. I'm all for it. I love supporting real artists.

DonRants said:

DonRants said:

Gunsnhalen said:

RS also gave U2's last album 5 stars. That's all you need to know...

Honestly I lost all respect for RS years agon when they first called Vanilla Ice the "King of Rap" more than 20 years ago.

But I have to admit I am truly happy for Adele sales. It is great to see a CD moving that well in this time and age. Why do you think people like her so much?

RS sold out in the early 80s when they switched from old fashioned newsprint journalism to the slick pop magazine format. That's when I got rid of my subscription and haven't bothered with it since then.

mancabdriver said:

alphastreet said:

Why wouldn't an Indian middle aged woman know some pop music today? I'm interested in your reply....

Not everybody listens to pop music. I have relatives that exclusively listens to gospel/spirituals and not the "devil's music" or "blues" as they call it, and don't want it played around them. Some know little if anything about secular music as they don't follow it. I don't know about Indian women, but it's not impossible to not know much about popular music.